Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think…
John Stuart Mill
Related No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follo... JOHN STUART MILL Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. JOSEPH JOUBERT Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. JOSEPH JOUBERT Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those w... GEORGE SAVILE Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those w... GEORGE SAVILE Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of... BLAISE PASCAL They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentmen... PIETRO ARETINO They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentme... PIETRO ARETINO Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves. MIKE NORTON Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacri... CRISS JAMI World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national is... DENIS HEALEY You must not hate those who do harmful things. The compassionate thing is to do what you can to stop... DALAI LAMA XIV The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by t... LUDWIG VON MISES I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. MARK TWAIN I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts MARK TWAIN The story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, in which one sees that bad children do not like to b... CARLO COLLODI Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, b... ROBERT BRESSON Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to cr... MICHAEL KORDA Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to thi... PAUL JOHNSON All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, ... BARUCH SPINOZA The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. GEORGE BIDAULT The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. GEORGE BIDAULT The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. GEORGES BIDAULT I loathe, detest, hate and abominate the block, the gibbet, the rack, the pillory and the faggots wi... ELIZABETH GOUDGE One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks. JOHANN VON GOETHE One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend... HENRY B. EYRING Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only ga... ARISTOTLE I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unre... MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; whi... CHARLES DICKENS Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. 2 Kings 6:16 BIBLE It is not the unloved who initiate disaffection, but those who cannot love because they love only th... PAULO FREIRE Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. N... SOCRATES Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please... RENE DESCARTES Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for w... ST. FRANCIS DE SALES The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l... JIM ROHN The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life d... JIMMY REID Life is perpetuated by not eating meat.The clenched jaws of hell hold those who do. THE TIRUKURAL Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure ,... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, ... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure,... THEODORE ROOSEVELT The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. ERICH FROMM The majority is not often right because they have been fooled in the past many times by those who fl... ANUJ SOMANY The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; po... JOHN STUART MILL The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; p... JOHN STUART MILL There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who h... ANTON CHEKHOV Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure..... THEODORE ROOSEVELT However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can elimin... F.A. HAYEK I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill. AYAAN HIRSI ALI Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who ... BILL WILSON The volunteer military has always been most enthusiastically, even devoutly, embraced by those who w... JOHN GREGORY DUNNE All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract at... CHARLES M. SCHWAB Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live SOURCE UNKNOWN Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from... RICHARD DAWKINS Then there came after them an evil posterity who inherited the Book, taking only the frail good of t... QURAN One thing I have learned from many years of watching my father is that some people, the best ones, a... RAE CARSON Ghettos have their own characteristics and consequences : be they physical. social, intellectua... TARIQ RAMADAN Coached students are only slightly more likely to have test score gains than those who were not coac... CAREN SCOROPANOS Surrounded by enemies, surrounded by evil, surrounded by darkness, injustice......."don't be afraid ... PATIENCE JOHNSON Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for everyone thinks himself so... RENE DESCARTES Why not admit that it is not our paramount duty to weep with all those who are weeping, to suffer wi... MAURICE MAETERLINCK If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly ... SUZY KASSEM Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them. ELBERT HUBBARD Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do SOREN KIERKEGAARD He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church bett... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-en... RENE DESCARTES Above all, it was due to gains by Mexican stocks on the Dow yesterday, and Mexico is absorbing those... HECTOR JIMENEZ None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,... MICHEL FOUCAULT People understand the gross laws, that is why they abide by them. Those who understand the subtle la... DADA BHAGWAN The Third Person Effect THE MISCONCEPTION: You believe your opinions and decisions are based on expe... DAVID MCRANEY Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...t... THEODORE ROOSEVELT I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who ar... ALAN SIEGEL Even religious people are vulnerable to this longing. Those who belong to communities of faith have ... BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, t... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Most blacks want school vouchers, but most liberals vehemently oppose them. Why? Because what is goo... DENNIS PRAGER But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human rac... JOHN STUART MILL Good, that's a job well done," Grishmak said cheerfully. "Am I the only one who's hungry? STUART HILL Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined ... ANNA QUINDLEN One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome advers... ALBERT SCHWEITZER Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment o... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. JAMES OLIVER There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,... MICHEL FOUCAULT There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,... MICHEL FOUCAULT There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,... MICHEL FOUCAULT The people who are your friends before you got the crown are the people who are going to be your bes... MEG CABOT When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those... LEO BUSCAGLIA I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun b... MUNSHI PREMCHAND Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't ... MICHAEL ENDE Then there are those who feel their own strangeness and are terrified by it. They struggle toward no... KATHERINE DUNN In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than t... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, shoul... TERRY EAGLETON God wanted to redeem men and open the way of salvation to those who seek Him. But men make themselve... BLAISE PASCAL Humility is by far the most spiritual virtue of the lot. The only way by which one may cease obsessi... CRISS JAMI This is particularly true of those who "love too much" and those who tend to lose themselves in thei... BEVERLY ENGEL Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and ... PUTT'S LAW
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only interest. JOHN STEWART MILL Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink ... JOHN STUART BLACKIE Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude. JOHN STUART BLACKIE Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
But God to man doth speak in solitude. JOHN STUART BLACKIE Rocking on a lazy billow
With roaming eyes,
Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
Thou art now w... JOHN STUART BLACKIE